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Authors
Gilles d'Aymery Jan Baughman Eli Beckerman Milo Clark
Manuel García Philip Greenspan Edward Herman Richard Macintosh
Scott Orlovsky Louis Proyect Phil Rockstroh Gerard Donnelly Smith
John Steppling Swans Other Columnists Occasional Contributors

 

Gilles d'Aymery

Blips #8 - 12/13
Blips #7 - 11/29
Bruce Anderson's AVA Oregon! - 11/15
Blips #6 - 11/15
Arundhati Roy's Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy - 11/1
Blips #5 - 11/1
2004 US Presidential Election: Recapitulation - 10/18
Blips #4 - 10/18
Ralph Nader: A Vote For Sanity - 10/18
Blips #3 - 10/4
Justice and Palestine: An Oxymoron? - 10/4
Blips #2 - 9/20
Blips #1 - 9/6
America #1 -- Score Card 2004 - 9/6
The Journey Toward Justice - 8/16
Plaisirs d'Amour: Jesuzzy Lib-Labs Meet Dick Cheney - 7/5
Ron And Ray - 6/21
Stay The Course - 6/7
Recent News, Personalities And Definitions - 5/24
The Politics Of Anti-Semitism, Part II: Part II: Stereotypes And Other Canards - 5/10
The Politics Of Anti-Semitism, Part I: Smear, Slander, And Intimidation - 4/26
Hearts, Minds, And The Military in Iraq - 4/12
Safer, Stronger, More Democratic: Kosovo, Iraq, And The Heavens - 3/29
Err, Mr. Carville, No Picture? - 3/29
Err, Mr. Bush, What Went Wrong? - 3/15
Ralph Nader: If Not Now, When? - 3/1
Introduction to the Special Issue on Iraq - 2/2
Another Friendly Blow To Ralph Nader - 1/19
Colin Powell's Delirious Prophecies - 1/5

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Jan E. Baughman

2004: Reality in Perspective - 12/13
Marketing Humanity - 11/29
Voting For Dummies™ - 11/1
Anyone But Bush? - 10/18
No Child Left Behind - 9/20
The Final Decline - 9/6
Independence Day Sale - 7/5
Peter Singer's The President of Good & Evil - 6/7
Say No To Censorship While You Can - 4/12
Ralph Nader: If Not Now, When? - 3/1
Proving A Negative - 2/2

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Eli Beckerman

2004: The Lost Year - 12/13
Help Is On The Way: Implications Of A Stolen Election - 11/15
Vote for America, My Love - 9/20
Welcome To New York - 9/6
I Will Not Be Herded - 8/2
Whose Imperial Patriarchy? - 7/19
The Power Of The People Don't Stop - 3/15
Message To Friends - 1/19

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Milo Clark

Beyond The Beyond: Reflections on a November Visited Upon us . . . Again - 12/13
Functioning Core And Non-integrating Gap - 11/29
November 4, 2004 - 11/15
Passions Unleashed - 11/15
What Are We Seeing? - 11/1
A Summary From The Hawaii Political Trenches - 10/18
A Day As Observer - 10/4
Impotent, Irresponsible And Hypothetical - 9/20
From Smoke To Fire: Is The GOP Stealing Another Election? - 9/6
Beginning Of The End Or End Of The Beginning? - 8/16
Rebalancing Power - 8/2
Welcome To The Polyculture! - 7/19
Leo Strauss - 7/5
The Bankruptcy Of Progress: The Challenge Of Today - 6/21
Final EIS For SBCT Transformation In Hawai'i - 6/21
Supply-Demand . . . . Implosion - 6/7
Wahabi And Saudi Arabia, Islam And America - 5/24
The Chicken Parable - 5/10
Techno-Fix And Sustainability: Grappling With illusions - 4/26
Terrorism, Dare We Define It? - 4/26
Progress Overwhelmed Reason - 4/12
Coup d'État: A Platform Issue - 3/29
Privatization: A Platform Issue - 3/15
Pakistan: Buddy Or Pariah? - 3/1
Future History: The Work of Robert A. Heinlein - 3/1
In Perspective, Parallel Lines Converge - 2/16
Patterns Which Do Not Connect - 2/16
Iraq: A Gnat On The Elephant Of History - 2/2
Arianna's Huff - 1/19
Lies: The Grease Of Politics - 1/19

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Manuel García, Jr.

2004: The Year Of Disillusion - 12/13
Newtonian America - 11/29
Dear Democrats - 11/15
Putting The Elephant Out - 11/1
Report From An Outpost - 10/4
What Your Vote Means - 9/20
Pericles' Funeral Oration For The 911 Dead - 9/6
Outline For Revolution - 8/16
The Imprisoned American Mind - 8/2
Thirsty Invaders, Chasing Heat - 7/19
Swiftian Overload - 7/5
McCain Versus Kerry? - 6/21
What Does It Mean To Be American? - 6/7
American Gulag, And A Dogfight Of Psychoses - 5/24
The Palestinians Versus The SUV - 5/10
Which Holocaust Matters? - 4/12
Election 2016: The Issues - 3/29
Oil, Population And Global Warming - 3/15
How Will The Iraq War Affect Americans? - 2/2
Why Howard Dean Will Win In 2004 - 1/19
Effects Of Iraq War On American Citizens - 1/5

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Philip Greenspan

2004: The Superpower Kept Sinking - 12/13
Blowback For The Bigots - 11/29
"Voting" with the Non-Voters - 11/15
Why Vote? - 10/18
Transforming Reality Into Mythology - 10/4
The Continual Election Winner - 9/20
Hooray For The DIS-es -- The DISobedient And DISsenters - 9/6
Sharon, Israel, And Anti-Semitism - 8/16
Dubya's Elixir: Bigger And Brighter Same Old Crap - 8/2
Legislative Process In The US Two-Party System - 7/19
ABB a.k.a. America's Bizarre Bunko - 7/5
Uncle Sam, The Bullshit Virtuoso - 6/21
Latest Epidemic: Gas Pain Syndrome! - 6/7
A Cancer In The Military - 5/24
I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be A Soldier - 5/10
Law And Order - 4/26
Who Will It Be: Coke, Pepsi Or 7-Up? - 4/12
Spaniards Get The Message - 3/29
The Good Germans (Nazi Era) And The Good Americans (Today) - 3/15
It Wasn't Saddam, And It Ain't Bush! - 3/1
Successes For The 'Dummies' - 2/16
A Plethora Of 'Road Maps' - 1/19

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Edward Herman

2004: A Year Of Frightening Regression - 12/13
The Left And The Election Choices - 7/19
We Had To Destroy [Fill in Country Name] In Order To Save It - 4/12
United States "Liberation:" From the Philippines to Iraq - 2/2

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Richard Macintosh

Killing People - 11/15
Singin' The Blues With Vichy On My Mind - 10/4
Tragedy - 9/6
Courage III - 8/16
Courage II - 8/2
Courage - 7/19
Rubicon 9/11 - 7/5
Fragile - 6/21
Rot - 6/7
Walking Wounded - 5/24

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Scott Orlovsky

Liberal Evangelical - 11/29
Say No To Capitalism - 3/29
Liberté vs. Fraternité - 3/15
Shamanism And The Evolution Of Humanity, Part II - 3/1
Shamanism And The Evolution Of Humanity Part I - 1/19

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Louis Proyect

2004: Perspectives And Opportunities - 12/13
The Sopranos, Capitalism And Organized Crime - 11/15
Herman Melville's Typee: a Peep at Polynesian Life - 10/18
Jeffrey St. Clair & Alexander Cockburn: Dime's Worth of Difference - 10/4
The Case for Nader-Camejo - 7/19
Paul Buhle's From the Lower East Side to Hollywood - 6/21
Behind The Anti-Nader Attacks - 5/24
Robert Bolaño's By Night in Chile - 5/10
Jeffrey St. Clair's The Politics of Nature - 3/29
Michael Yates's Naming the System - 3/1
The Kurdish Pawn - 2/2
Alan Furst's Red Gold - 1/5

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Phil Rockstroh

2004: A Case Study In Forensic Irony - 12/13
Dying Empire Bebop: The Sedition Of Ecstatic Novelty - 11/29
A Consumer's Guide To Faith-Based Bigotry - 11/15
On Attendance Of A Funeral In The Rural South: Empire, Jesus, And The Death Gene - 11/1
God, The Ghost Of Richard Nixon, And The Demons Of Election 2004 - 10/18
The War in Iraq -- The Consumer's Crusade - 10/4
From Suburban Subdivisions To Sadr City: An Ode To My Comfort Level - 9/20
A Thing That Waits For Lunch - 8/16
From The Annals of Presidential Style: Do The Clothes Make The Mascot? - 8/2
Confronting The Towering Lies Of Empire: A Eulogy - 7/19
Election 2004: A Plebiscite In Bedlam - 7/5
Ronald Reagan Receives Sympathy From The Devil - 6/21
Commodified Hell And The Poetry Of Dark Providence - 6/7
Can We Torture Them For You Retail? - 5/24
Nappytime Of The Gods: American Somnambulists In The House Of Death - 5/10
The Blur Of Objects Resolves Into Water And Flame - 4/26
Neo-Con Tragedy -- Played As Farce - 4/26
Liturgies Of Hate And Longing: The Uneasy Soul Of Contemporary Conservatism - 4/12
A Whore's Pentecost: Epiphanies In The Age of Commercialization - 3/29
Global Warming: The Passion Of The Snow Globe of Doom - 3/15
Wayward Breasts And The Ever-Vigilant Reign Of Empress Barbie - 3/1
God-Loving And Chaste In Outer Space - 2/16
A Poison Pen Letter To Our Apostle Of Perpetual Psychosis, Brother Mel Gibson - 2/16
Who Will Protect Us From Our Protectors? - 1/19
America, How Did It Come To This? - 1/5

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Gerard Donnelly Smith

2004: The Insurgent Word - 12/13
Remarks Of The President Of The United States On Gay And Lesbian Policy - 11/29
Birds in the Bush - 11/29
The Resurrected Dead-Horse - 11/15
The Dead Horse (for John and Gilles) - 11/1
Beauty in a Time of Lies: Truth in a Time of Horror - 11/1
Usus Fructus - 10/18
Liberty's Century - 10/18
The Cult Protection Act - 10/4
The President who Never Was (for Al Gore) - 9/20
The Temple Goddess - 9/6
Assia de Nocumento - 9/6
God On Our Side - 8/16
The Documentary As Propaganda - 8/2
Denial - 7/19
Ipse Dixit - 7/5
Unlawful Orders - 6/7
Twisted Ascension - 5/24
The Weight of One More Voice - 5/10
Environmental Contamination and Genocide: Tar Creek Superfund Site - 3/15
Lies, Lies, Always Lies - 3/15
Killing Socrates - 3/1
Genocide: Language Acquisition As Slow Extermination - 2/16
Propaganda Iraq - 2/2
Monuments To Magnificence - 1/19

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John Steppling

Empire Of Amnesia, 2004 - John Steppling
- 12/13
Cultural Entropy - 11/1
Stan Goff's Full Spectrum Disorder - 9/6
The Debacle At The Hague - 8/16
The Genius Of Marlon Brando - 7/5
Kerry And Electoral Illusions - 7/5

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SWANS

Death Genes: The Second Coming - Walker Percy - 12/13
Libertad Bajo Palabra - Octavio Paz - 12/13
Letters to a Young Poet (Letter Eight) - Rainer Maria Rilke - 6/21
The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson - 4/12
Ralph Nader: If Not Now, When? - Swans - 3/1
2004 Predictions - Swans - 1/1

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Other Columnists

Joe Davison:  2004: Another Best and Worst Year - 12/13
Joe Davison:  Gerry's War - 11/29
Joe Davison:  Checkbook Imperialism - 11/15
Joe Davison:  Saddam Hussein: Hero Or Villain - 11/1
Michael Doliner:  2004: Diary Of A Man In Despair - 12/13
Michael Doliner:  Free Trade Ideology And The Constitution - 10/4
Michael Doliner:  Historia Bush - 8/16
Michael Doliner:  The Terrible Shrug - 5/24
Charles Marowitz:  The Message Of 2004 - 12/13
Charles Marowitz:  The Hidden Costs Of War - 11/29
Charles Marowitz:  Lisa Appignanesi's The Cabaret - 11/15
Joel Wendland:  Retrospective On 2004, Or Why I Need More Sleep - 12/13
Joel Wendland:  Ride This Donkey: Why The Left Needs A Fundamental Realignment - 11/15
Joel Wendland:  Regime Change Starts With Bush - 7/5
Joel Wendland:  Rahul Mahajan's Full Spectrum Dominance - 5/24
Joel Wendland:  From the Ashes Of The Old - 5/10
Joel Wendland:  Bush Is The Stick-up Man For The Ruling Class - 4/12
Frank Wycoff:  2004: We Could Use Some People Power In The U.S. - 12/13
Frank Wycoff:  Bush Lied! - 7/19
Frank Wycoff:  The Health Insurance Slave Trade - 3/29
Frank Wycoff:  Jobs And Janet Jackson - 3/15
Frank Wycoff:  Do You Feel Represented? - 2/16
Frank Wycoff:  Are The Unemployed Eating Cake Yet? - 1/19

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Occasional Contributors

Tanweer Akram:  Tariq Ali On The Recolonisation Of Iraq - 2/2
Tanweer Akram:  Historian And The Distortion of History - 1/19
M. Shahid Alam:  Alberuni (973-1048 CE) - 4/12
Justin Alexander:  Saddam's Odious Debt - 2/2
Anthony Arnove:  After The Invasion - 2/2
Naseer Aruri:  The Bush Doctrine: Trouble At Home And Abroad - 2/2
Chili Bill:  Remembering Ray - 6/21
John Blunt:  Lester R. Brown's Plan B: Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble - 7/19
John Blunt:  Letter To John Kerry - 6/21
John Blunt:  Evangelical Democracy: What Gunboat Salvation Won't Fix . . . - 5/10
John Blunt:  A Scotch, A Cause, And A Ditch To Dig . . . - 4/12
Guy Burneko:  Collapse - 10/4
Peter M. Camejo:  The Avocado Declaration - 1/5
George Capaccio:  Invasion And Occupation Through Iraqi Eyes - 2/2
James M. Craven:  The Labor of Sisyphus - 2/16
Bill Eger:  The Fine Art And Accomplished Magic Of Liking Everything - 7/5
Bill Eger:  Reviving Political Parties: The Last Chance For Democracy - 6/21
Gregory Elich:  Assault On Iraqi Women - 2/2
Sara Flounders and John Catalinotto:  Depleted Uranium: The Pentagon Betrayal Of GIs And Iraqis - 2/2
Garry Goodrow:  Not Joe Isuzu; Not Mr. Whipple: The Greatest Republican - 6/21
Denis J. Halliday:  Pre-Emptive Strike Policy And The United Nations - 2/2
Howie Hawkins:  There Never Were Any "Good Old Days" In The Democratic Party - 3/1
Mohammed Ben Jelloun:  Wilsonian Or Straussian: Post-Cold War Idealism? - 8/2
Helen Jones:  Mythology - 9/6
S. Jeffrey Jones:  Plantation Politics? Mimes, Minstrels And Miscalculation - 12/13
Tim Keane:  God Help Us - 8/16
Anna Kuros:  Never Buy A Cat In A Bag - 10/18
Mark Lause:  Derailing Third Parties: Today And Yesterday - 11/1
John Marshall:  The Robots Of Gomorrah - 8/2
Rania Masri:  "Freeing" Iraq's Economy - For Its Occupiers - 2/2
Thomas J. Nagy, et al.:  Methods For Saving The World's Children - 2/2
Michael Parenti:  Follow The Leader - 2/2
Henry Pelifian:  Animal Park - 7/5
Tom Reier:  Goodbye, Ray - 6/21
Robert Rosenberg:  The Precision With Which Love Invents - 8/16
John Sloboda:  Civilian Deaths: The Achilles Heel Of The Coalition Occupation? - 2/2
Macdonald Stainsby  The Creator Vs. Canadian Imperialism: Exercise Narwhal, Gunboat Diplomacy, and Oil - 9/20
Michael W. Stowell:  Inside Out - 3/15
Michael W. Stowell:  Children Of Iraq - 2/2
José M. Tirado:  A Perfect Fit: Buddhists & The Greens - 9/6
José M. Tirado:  Damned If We Do? Damned 'Cause We Didn't! - 8/2
Ian Werkheiser:  The President - 11/15
Steven Yoder:  The Language of Evasion - 1/19

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Created: December 25, 2003
Last Updated: December 20, 2004